When you look at the Egyptians, they require no wood, since their houses and gathering sites are free, and the temple costs no wood. Of course some techs early on may cost wood, but those are optional and veyr few players research them in Archaic. So they need no wood.
The Norse need to build a temple which is 80 wood, and lets say 2 houses (80 wood). Plus probably about 2-3 ox carts, probably 2. But lets just say 3 anyways, Three costs 150 wood. The Norse in total need about 310 wood in Archaic.
Now to the Greeks. On most maps you have berries, chickens, and 2 main hunting sources (dsicluding goats since they can be brought to the TC). Greeks only need 1 resource drop off for each of these, Egpyts are free, and Norse need only 1. Each granary costs 50 wood, so the Greesk need on average 200 wood just to collect food. They also need drop sites for gold and wood, which cost 50 wood each. So the Greeks need 300 wood just in drop sites. (maybe 250, depending on how amny trees are around the TC and how much food). Two houses cost 100 wood, and the temple needs 100 wood. So you see, the Greeks need estimated 400-500 wood jsut in Archaic.
Lets compare:
Obviously on some maps you wont need 4 granaries, or a wood site. But still, on the average map you have at least 3 different food sources for Archaic which are each far enough apart to require different granaries. You aslo will need a gold site, but not always a wood site. But either way, the Greeks heavily reply on too much wood early on. This requires them to divert more villagers to wood rather than collecting food or gold, or to simply make a few extra villagers, costing 100-200 extra food. They need to rely on less wood early on. [This message has been edited by PW_DarkKnight (edited 02-01-2003 @ 10:13 AM).]
House 1: Free
House 2: Free
Temple : No wood
Granary 1 (berries): Free
Granary 2 (chickens): Free
Granary 3 (hunting area 1): Free
Granary 4 (hunting area 2): Free
Wood site: Free
Gold site: Free
House 1: 40 wood
House 2: 40 wood
Temple: 80 wood
Ox Cart 1 (food): They satrt with one (no wood)
Ox Cart 2 (wood): 50 wood
Ox Cart 3 (gold): 50 wood
House 1: 50 wood
House 2: 50 wood
Temple: 100 wood
Granary 1 (chickens): 50 wood
Granary 2 (berries): 50 wood
Granary 3 (hunting area 1): 50 wood
Granary 4 (hunting area 2): 50 wood
Wood site: 50 wood
Gold Site: 50 wood
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